How to copy a setting from one table to other tables?

Hi!

The situation is I have 5 similar tables in my app. I do some cosmetic changes (eg. column name, data type, coloring, column rearrangement, etc.) and I want to copy the setting to all other tables.

I don't want to delete and copy bc I already added different event handlers to all tables.
Can you please advise what's the easiest/fastest way to do?

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Hello @Minmin_Suzu,

Could you give me some examples of settings that you are looking to duplicate/move to other tables?

I would like to copy the setting in column including column position. like I have several tables from the same source, I make a lot of cosmetic changes (name, color) for one, I want the other tables to have the same changes.

I tried just deleted other tables and copy from the master one, but it's a mess because I have a lot of different event handlers, links that I already did.

Ah ok I see, thank you for sharing that.

You are looking to mimic row specific Appearance settings over to other tables.

Unfortunately I do not think the functionality you have in mind is currently possible with Retool tables :sweat:

But I can make a feature request for this! I will file this right now and keep you updated on anything I hear from our engineering team :saluting_face:

As currently the only way to copy appearance settings is to copy/past one component, but as you said this gets tricky with event handlers and links. Do you not want to have the event handlers and links carry over across same looking tables with the same data source?

My advice for a short term solution would be to build out a single table and then once finished duplicate it out and then remove event handlers that you do not want on the other tables.